clay

product @ ai startups, @hbs ms/mba, software, sports

[whimsy lohan (in NYC) @SexyLikeMeiosis]

Worth noting that the current datacenter backlash is what 40 years of anti-nuclear activism looks like in the present tense. The same movement that killed clean baseload is now mad that compute is straining the grid. Colossal self-own.

[clay @codeclayman]

one of the most well written articles I've ever read.

"As a society, we are making an enormously risky bet: that we can reap the rewards of a runaway gambling industry without paying any price; that, unlike every civilization that came before us, we can beat the house."

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.

My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: https://t.co/h8O1ow6Uwi

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.

My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: https://t.co/h8O1ow6Uwi

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

using claude sonnet 4.6 to fix a typo

[Mike DeBonis @mikedebonis]

He pizza'd so others could french fry

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Oh, Reddit. You've done it again.

The ad is beautiful btw, they should've run this one.

[RAW @rawknuckle]

I wholeheartedly believe skiing could change a persons life for the better. Just enough times until you can run greens and blues proficiently is all you really need. Your life will 100% improve. Similar to surfing (the few times Ive surfed a board felt exhilarating but it's much harder to learn).

Take yourself to beautiful mountains in different parts of the world. Great exercise. Great for couples, friends, and family. If you havent committed to learning, you really should. Probably my favorite pastime I've ever had, and I've had tons.

[clay @codeclayman]

@TPCarney what study is this data from? would be really curious what specific parenting activities are included in "taking care of their children". also interested to see if how that's shifted by child age group too - ie more time spent with younger kids but flat for older

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[clay @codeclayman]

@DavidSacks @garrytan i would move to Austin in a heartbeat if YC moved there

[Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr]

This comment is actually instructive in explaining how California manages to waste enormous sums of public money. It isn’t “theft” in the narrow legal sense. Nobody is stuffing cash in duffel bags. But when taxpayers are compelled to fund projects that continuously produce almost no public value, the moral distinction between waste and theft starts to blur.

Spending more than $17 billion to deliver a single mile of track is a concrete example. To a reasonable citizen, this understandably feels like theft, even if it passes every formal rule.

The deeper problem is not corruption in the cartoon sense, but incentive failure caused by political capture. When one-party dominance persists long enough, success inside the system stops being measured by outcomes and starts being measured by activity. How many favored constituencies are paid, how many processes are satisfied, how many insiders benefit. Creating 16,000 union jobs becomes the metric of success, regardless of whether the project itself works.

In that environment, the purpose of the spending quietly flips. The act of allocating money replaces the intended result of the work. Officials come to believe they have succeeded because they followed the political logic of the system, and they are genuinely confused when citizens object to the absence of results.

Imagine if the private economy operated this way. Imagine the most unprofitable companies received more capital precisely because they failed, while productive firms were starved because they “didn’t need it.” Society functions only when capital flows increasingly toward effectiveness, not toward the largest failures. California’s public allocation system increasingly does the opposite…and then calls it success, because the people inside the system like @igardon actually *believe* it’s success.

[clay @codeclayman]

@calebmer will they still use it internally?

[niall @niallpta]

“to my big brother George, the richest man in town”

[clay @codeclayman]

@xGPhilosophy but does xg account for being in the position to take that shot

[clay @codeclayman]

@justinbieber also, why does an orientation change cancel dictation? makes no sense

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Interesting thesis on what destroys software engineering productivity at large enterprises: it's that legibility is prioritized over everything else.

https://t.co/XvUZlJs4Oh

[clay @codeclayman]

@jazayerli how is Joe Carter not on this list?

[clay @codeclayman]

only way this ends is if shohei comes up with the bases loaded

[clay @codeclayman]

@BMcCarthy32 intentional walk = -1 out

[Céspedes Family BBQ @CespedesBBQ]

baseball in 2025:

"and here comes the least trustworthy reliever in the history of the universe to try to keep this game tied"

*102 MPH*